Player-Facing Roadmap for 2022

better general I-V-A ballance

revisit maxsuit to be more of a Squadplattform, more general surviveability over infantrykillpotential with squadsupport abilites ..

recontools for medic and engineer to not be too reliant on Infils and vehicles fo scouting/recon

revisit aircontrols and general controler and joysticksupport

revisit ESF to have all their weaponchoices on 1 slot only and balance them accordingly
as well as being more new playerfriendly .. i think level 1 Stealth should be default but changeable when the player wants to use other options on defensive slot ... not sure if engagementradar should stay a default option because that is rather more for vets to hunt down the Pubs rather than for Newbies to be aware of enemy aircraft, tough call on that one ...

revisit AA balance vor I-V-A play

will see what you guys will bring for ES basilliskesque turrets ...

Item Gifting? Yes
Outfit Wars on their own map away from the general population? Yes!!! Big win here. It will make Outfits illustrious again. (AE) where you at? All the while not disrupting the general population on the other maps.

I hope you guys plan do give NSO some love too. Chimera and Dervish are weak & lacking. Having to have a second player for the dervish makes it worse that other ESFs. NSO auraxium weapons are also weak & lacking. Not many cool skins or skins at all for infantry and vehicles. Not much interesting faction specific abilities & stuff. Max is boring, would be nice to have another choice then to be a campy farmy doorway max.

Maining NSO has been a little cringe for me and I've nearly entirely stopped playing tank warfare, ESF play, and using MAXes.
Otherwise the updates and the direction the game has been going in has been awesome! Keep up the good work! Just hoping to get a little NSO love at some point .

I'm really sad server transfers aren't on this roadmap. Some interesting things though.

Keep up the good work guys and for my part I will continue to send in vids of flying aimbots to cheater@planetside2.com for your consideration.

please, im talking from my heart here

the NSO Assault Rifles are horrible, terrible useless weapons that i have to resort to taking my pistol out at long and close ranges because they are just bad - low dps, no ammo, horrible range for their damage, Worst reticules(ADS dot) that are about 5-15X larget than the regular yellow dot that the NS weapons have

the NSO SMG's - bad dps, no ammo, worst damage profiles, no range, worst reticules and overall bad

please do look into them and make them useful, at the very least bump their damage one up
give us an NC copy of 167x652 or the tr 125x896
something, all of the smg's are just a shame

the NSO medic class doesn't even have an option to fight with and is forced to use his pistols as his primary basically

NSO AA OPTIONS - none, the chimera one is just non existent and esf's can tank a few mags without a care in the world alongside horrible range and horrible muzzle velocity which esf's can just fly around and dodge them in real time from 100m not caring at all
other AA AV options - none existent

also - remove sniper rifles ohk ability or cloak from infiltrators that have sniper rifles
they abuse clientside alongside the same amount of health as a heavy assault to their benifit for years, either mitigate the ability of sniper rifles to ruin the game or completely remove them

Waaaaaahhhhhh! Boo hoo... If you have to remove bolters that actually have to aim to get head shot kill, then also remove the pump action shotguns from the light assaults so they don't have one shot kills up close by hip firing.

Every single structure is harder to place cause of this.
Great... Another nerf to construction, like as if it's fu,cking playable right now.

I'd love to see more interest into the low tier weapons no one uses because they're stats are trash.

As a new player back in 2012, I did buy those trash *** weapons, I was super slow on xp and cert farming so it felt really really hard to keep up. It might be a good thing to have them rebalanced, so new players have a change against veterans, and they probably won't quit after an hour of getting farmed lmao.

I also feel like the Colossus tank should be reworked, it could cost personnal merit and be deployed by anyone from te outfit. Make it more vulnerable if operated alone, and increase the squad abilities, maybe a modding that could get it into classes and battle choice (high defence / low damages ; high speed / low defences ; ect.) just like a balanced RPG would do with mage, tank, dps, heal.

And I love the idea to turn NS into faction specific, maybe the harrasser, lightning, sunderer, NS air vehicles and why not bastion, could get the same rework, with unique faction abilities such as the heavy tanks.

Sorry I’m late to the party.

My outfit caught fire when we saw this, we are nothing if not totally on edge about all the things to come this year.

I think this is a good idea especially for longer term players who can now plan around taking breaks, and when to come back, as well as what to expect.

Thank you for stepping it up in the last two years, I feel I have experienced the best you guys have been putting out, and I look forward to spending all my money every time you bring out another impossible to have cosmetic.

Fix the shotgun bug! There has been a bug in the game for several years now, the laser sight does not work if bullet cartridges are not installed on the shotgun. Next - make sure that not only his clan, but also any person from his squad can sit in the bastion at the choice of the owner. And lastly, I beg you, do not touch the cards. You can't. We have all seen Oshur, made according to the principle Ctrl+C Ctrl+V. At the same time, the people who made it do not understand what game design is at all. These maps would be suitable for a single shooter, killing xenomorphs. But they are not suitable for pvp. The old maps were thought out to the smallest detail, every entrance, every corner, every stone was balanced. You just ran across identical towers in the editor. Your idea with underwater technology is just an addiction. Underwater planes? Are you out of your mind? It kills the atmosphere of the game. If you want underwater gameplay - Make underwater suits according to the MAX principle. Make submarines with full-fledged new weapons. But I doubt you will succeed - you can't balance weapons either. I regret that the people who gave us really high-quality content, such as Promise Jackal guns, are no longer involved in the development of the game. It was quality content, and the game's old audience was happy with it. And what are you doing? Drug addiction with Oshur? Fishing? Who is it for? I understand that you want to attract new players to the project, but do not spoil what was done before you! Otherwise, you will lose your old fan base. Planetside for about ten years. And he almost did not change 8 of them. And yet he lived. Without Oshur, without bastions, without fishing and other nonsense.

Your replica of the standard Basilisk... Interesting, but raw and unbalanced. It is already evident that the Terran variant is capable of destroying a Magrider in 1 clip, when attacked in the forehead. Why is this happening? Vulcan cant do that... Not to mention the analogues of the NewConglomerate.

NSO are boring and unplayable. It can be seen that you are trying, but you did not reach the level that the previous developers set. The only thing that NSO came out playable is MAX. And their weapons, their equipment ... About the Chimera, you yourself understand everything. Dervish is an interesting idea. But for some reason, its pilot does not have anti-personnel weapons, like all aircraft. The scope of the sniper rifle is black... Due to this, the crosshair of the scope is simply NOT visible on a dark background! Have you noticed that all factions have COLORED sights? And those sights that are black have a well-defined aiming point ...Why couldn't the NSO scope be made white? So that it can be seen at night, against the background of the dark camouflage of the enemy? Or why not copy the existing, working options for sniper rifle sights? Why does the Railjack shooter see the aiming point, but the NSO sniper does not?

P.S. I post this bug-report 2 years ago... The bug has not been fixed yet
https://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php?threads/laser-sights-on-shotguns.255690/